Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-21


 Dr. J. P. Fisk has gone on visit to Los Angeles, California.
 The Rev. Mir. Rouse, of Portland, Maine, tional church.
 General State News. TO BEAUTIFY A CHURCH. It is in contemplation to have the whole interior of the Derby Congregational church frescoed during the August vacation. It is thought that Mir. Healy, of Bridgeport, Will have the contract, but it has not yet been awarded.
 KILLED SOME CATTLE. During the shower on Sunday afternoon in Colchester an unusual amount of ram Ie!i, and the roads about the town are badly
 washed in some places. The lightning IS l reported to have killed some cattle pelonging l to Joseph Gillette.
 YALE '87 MAN.
 Holm c. Simonds, son of Dr. Andrew Si- monds, has just been elected cashier of the First National bank of Charleston, s. O., of which institution his father is president Young Mir. Simonds finished his education at Yale college last spring, graduating with the highest honors.
 HOME WAS GOOD ENOUGH. Mrs. Nancy Caldwell of Wethe rsfeld, who ! died last Sunday, aged 80, had not been out
 
 neither had she nor her husband ever been outside of the State of Connecticut. She I celebrated her golden wedding four years ago. GREAT SEA BASS FISHING. The tug Mabel of Hartford had party of thirty three on her sea bass fishing trip to | the Montauk grounds on Tuesday and every body had great sport, the fish running large and | being plenty. The total catch was 5s5. The party was made up of people from Hartford, Manchester MeridaD and Ha0Qam, Next Tuesday the Mabel goes to the fishing ground again and all the seats are booked. SEASIDE PARK.
 Yesterday Frank Miller, treasurer of the Seaside Park Driving club, Bridgeport, sent the park commissioners check for $2OO to be expended in putting the trotting course at Seaside Park in frst-class order for the trials of speed in which the club proposes to in- l dulge the coming fall. The commissioners will do the job up brown at the expense ot ! the club and the Bridgeport public can step down when the time comes and enjoy the trotting without costing them cent THE PEACE MEETING. The twentieth annual meeting of the Peace society will be held next month as usual at Burrows grove, Mystic. These meetings are usually largely attended by people from the surrounding country and many eloquent speakers from abroad deliver addresses. Such variety and number of vehicles as is to be seen at the peace meetings, the conveyances for the farmers to reach the grove from miles around, can be witnessed nowhere elss.- Norwich Bulletin.
 AN EIGHTEEN POUND CABBAGE. When reporter of the News got back to the office from his dinner yesterday after noon he found the doorway leading to his office completely blocked by huge cabbage left there for ownership and inspection. It weighed eighteen pounds and measured four feet in circumference. David Fitzgerald, of Stratford, raised it, and he says it is early summer cabbage. It certainly must have started very early in the summer to get where it is now.-Bridgeport News. ONE OF coNNEcTIcUT's VENERABLE HOUSES. Near the old Road church, in the central district of Stonington, stands an ancient farmhouse, sheltered from the burning heat of the summer sun by wide o'erspreading elms. In the old house are Mrs. Charles w. Vaughn, Miss Vaughn, Mrs. E. M. Moves and Mrs. Charles R. Gallup, who are guests of Mrs. Eliza Palmer Moves, who perma- nently resides at the anticipated home. The house was built about 1705. Hard by is an- other venerated building having in it's stone chimney above the roof flat stone bearing the date of I'll.
 KILLINGwoRTn HOUSE STRUCK. The house of Daniel Rutty, in Killing worth, was struck by lightning Monday af- ternoon and so damaged that it was not worth rebuilding. Mrs. Rutty was seriously I injured and was conveyed to a neighbours residence. An old lady was sitting in a rock ing chair from which the lightning took two rounds from the lower part without injuring her. In Moodus a horse owned by Gslston Mitchell was 50 weakened by a shock that he fell to the ground while hitchsd to carriage and standing under a shed. Other horses near by were somewhat affected. THE CONSOLIDATED. npa of 4ho oh fho cent lease of the Naugatuck railroad by the New York, New Haven and Hartford com pany has been the transfer of the main office of the former company from Bridgeport to New Haven. The executive machinery of the Naugatuck road is to be discontinued aud the business will be conducted by the cleri- cal force of the latter company at New
 Haven. Many of the veteran officials of the Naugatuck will cease their connection with the company, but the services of Superin- tendent Beach are to be retained in the ca pacity of division superintendent. BEECHER MEMORIAL SERVICE AT NEW PRESTON.
 A "Beecher memorial service" was held at the residence of the Rev. E. s. Child at
 New Preston on Tuesday. Most of the min-
 isters of Litchfeld county attended. MT. Child is @ regular contributor to the Chris
 tian Union, the Christian at Work, Scrib-
 ner's and other periodicals, and has taken up
 a
 health. He opened the meeting with a paper on tThe Boyhood of Henry Ward
 Beecher; the influence of Litch6eld county on his career" He was followed by the Rev. Samuel ScoviIle of Stamford, who read ex- tracts from the biography of Mir. Beecher, which he is preparing. An address was de livered by Editor Peters of the Brooklyn Times. THE oUINEBAUG MILL STARTS UP SIX HUN
 
 The strike in the weaving room of the Quinebaug company's mill. Danielsonville, continued during last week and the mill was stopped. Tuesday morning, in accordance with notice, the company rang it's bell and at the proper time started its wheels. Sufi- cient help-a large part of which was among the strikers last week-was found to be present to run 600 of the 1, 400 looms in the mill, and it is hoped that in 8 few days all the looms will be in operation on terms alike honorable to employer and employed. While strikes have been almost the order of the day in many parts of the country, the manu- featuring interests of this section have here tofore escaped almost entirely their influence and occurrence. On good authority it is stated that the Knights of Labor have not encouraged the strike, and, as an order, do not encourage it's continuance.
 MIR. MGREGoR's FINE YACHT.
 Yesterdays Derby Transcript says: The family of A. McGregor of Mamaroneck, N. York, arrived at the wharf Satu urday even ing in their fine steam yacht Daphne.
 They were accompanied by W.Rhoades of Cleveland, Ohio, and were all the guests of Joseph Tomlinson, Esq. ovsr the Sabbath. | On Monday they sailed for home, joined by I Mrs. Tomlinson, her son and daughter. MT. | McGregor is a member of, and has an official I connection, with the Standard Oil company of New York, through which he has acquired ! great wealth. He has palatial residence at | Mamaroneck. Joseph Tomlinson. jr., has by his gentlemanly manner and fine educs- !